Jun
17
A Lot More Oil Where It’s Already Come From
June 17, 2013 | 1 Comment
Chinese scientists have already succeeded in recovering a sensational 15% of the residual oil in their test reservoir when they formed a collaboration with the Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR) in Bergen, Norway researchers to find out what had actually taken place down in the reservoir. Oil in reservoirs is confined in tiny pores […]
Apr
9
Lots More Oil Where It Already Came From
April 9, 2013 | 1 Comment
Technology using natural soil bacteria for enhanced oil recovery now is commercially available and poised to recover the crude oil remaining in thousands of exhausted oil wells. Brian Clement, Ph.D. spoke in New Orleans yesterday April 8, with his report on a process termed microbially enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) that is part of the 245th […]
Dec
11
Simultaneously Get Oil and Gas and Produce Electricity
December 11, 2012 | 3 Comments
Last night Al Fin posted about Marshall Savage whose idea is utilizing solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) placed within rocks at strategic locations. This approach would produce oil, gas, and electricity using an ‘in situ process’, without significant mining or rock removal. The idea is a brilliant connection of existing technologies harnessed in a different […]
Dec
7
Could Synthetic Fuel End U.S. Need for Crude Oil?
December 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
A team of Princeton researchers led by Christodoulos Floudas, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton, evaluated scenarios in which the United States could power its vehicles with synthetic fuels rather than relying on oil. The team’s conclusion is the U. S. could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination […]
Oct
11
Huge Oil Strike in Oklahoma
October 11, 2012 | 5 Comments
Continental Resources Inc. unveiled its newest oil field with a reservoir rock of an oil-rich portion of the Woodford Shale that lies beneath oil fields tapped long ago by some of the state’s biggest oil names, including Phillips Petroleum, Noble, Hefner and Skelly Oil. The new field is in an area of southern Oklahoma that […]
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